Product Description

• The most comprehensive guidebook available on the most popular spreadsheet program, fully updated to include all–new "X" features
• Written by the leading Excel guru known as "Mr. Spreadsheet," John Walkenbach, who has written more than thirty books and 300 articles on related topics and maintains the popular Spreadsheet Page at www.j–walk.com/ss
• The definitive reference book for beginning to advanced users, featuring expert advice and hundreds of examples, tips, techniques, shortcuts, work–arounds, and more
• Covers expanded use of XML and Web services to facilitate data reporting, analysis, importing, and exporting information
• Explores Excel programming for those who want advanced information
• CD–ROM includes all templates and worksheets used in the book, as well as sample chapters from all Wiley Office "X" related Bibles and useful third party software, including John Walkenbach′s Power Utility Pak

Note: CD–ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #8993 in Books
• Published on: 2003-10-10
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 936 pages

From the Back Cover
If Excel 2003 can do it, you can do it too...

Whether you’re just discovering Excel or are already a power user, there’s no better instructor than "Mr. Spreadsheet," John Walkenbach. From basic formulas, functions, and chart creation to data analysis, custom number formats, data validation, and Excel programming with VBA, this is the comprehensive resource for Excel 2003. No matter what your level of expertise, you’ll benefit from hundreds of examples, exercises, tips, techniques, and workarounds, all served with a generous helping of the master’s expert advice.

Inside, you’ll find complete coverage of Excel 2003

• Learn your way around cells, rows, columns, worksheets, workbooks, and ranges
• Discover how to create charts and diagrams, organize lists, and simplify complex tasks using Excel
• Develop formulas that manipulate text, look up values, and perform financial applications
• Analyze data using external database files and pivot tables
• Perform "what if" analysis, use Goal Seek and Solver, and gain proficiency with the Analysis ToolPak
• Use XML to facilitate data reporting, analysis, importing, and exporting
• Explore conditional formatting, link and consolidate worksheets, and use Excel in a workgroup
• Understand how Excel uses HTML in Internet applications
• Program Excel using VBA, develop UserForms, and create custom add–ins

Bonus CD–ROM and companion Web site!

• Exclusive Office 2003 Super Bible eBook, with more than 500 pages of information about how Microsoft Office components work together
• Bonus shareware, freeware, trial, demo, and evaluation programs that work with or enhance Microsoft Office
• Searchable eBook version of Excel 2003 Bible
• An easy–to–use interface that allows you to browse and install everything on the CD

About the Author
John Walkenbach is the author of approximately three dozen spreadsheet books. Visit his Web site at http://.j–walk.com.

Customer Reviews

Comprehensive Resource for Advanced and Simple Applications!
I usually avoid books about Microsoft software because I can usually muddle through and figure out what I want to do. If in doubt, I seek out a twelve-year-old who knows the answers. But this week I had a desire to create a unique chart for a client, and decided to see if Excel would help me make the chart. I had the good fortune to run across Excel 2003 Bible at the library, and took it home to skim. Within 45 minutes I had all the answers to my questions, and found a way to create a better chart than I had originally planned to make. That was well worth my time. I'm sure that I would never have found the alternatives on my own that the book pointed me to.

Intrigued by the help I got, I went back and read the simple sections as well. I was impressed by how thorough all of the material is. You are given many different ways to accomplish the same task, along with the pros and cons of why to go one way versus another. I also appreciated the many graphics in the book to show what the screens look like.

The book is also backed up with a CD to run simulations and a web site where you can get more help.

If you think you may ever want to do advanced applications of Excel, I strongly encourage you to read this book. I particularly liked the charting and analysis sections.

As I finished this book, I realized that I usually employ Excel to get tasks done faster . . . and hadn't given much thought to how to complete them better. I suspect that much data could be made more usable and valuable for me and others if I think about how to employ all of Excel's tools in advance.

A treasure trove, but missing some jewels
6 out of 5 for the depth this book goes into. Relatively readable (apart from the array formula section where the author loses any sense of the reality of spreadsheets producing paragraph long formulae which, despite being amazing, aren't much use in practice unless you have the book by your side at all times).

4 out of 5 for coverage. What's up, pivot tables hardly get a look in. Despite their extremely usefulness in many situations, the author doesn't really get to grips with them; I learnt a lot more about them banging my head against the screen than using this book.

So, useful book, but could be better in some areas.

Almost fine
Before I bought other books in Amazon, and they were perfect looks like almost new. When I opened the post and I saw this one I was surprised because the cover of the book is broken. At least the system should charge me less for this damage.